Engineering Logs

TechnicalWritings

Explorations in distributed systems, CRDTs, local-first software, and the craft of building collaborative tools.

Local-First in Production — FOSDEM 2026 Recap

A short recap of my FOSDEM talk on building Plane’s collaborative Wiki with Yjs, the production failures that taught us the most, and the slides for anyone who couldn’t make it.

5 min read2025

CRDT Series

CRDT Versioning Deep Dive

I spent days trying to understand how version history works in CRDTs. Turns out snapshots don't store content at all—they're 20-50 byte mathematical reference points. Here's everything I learned about StateVectors, DeleteSets, and why diffing in Yjs is fundamentally different from git.

5 min read2025

Philosophy

On Work-Life Balance: Reframing How I Live

Moving beyond the false binary of toxic hustle vs. disconnected work-life balance. How I structure the 24 hours I have, and why treating time as a finite budget changes everything.

5 min read2025

Engineering

Plane Wiki launch

Announcement post.

5 min read2025

Deep Dive

Yjs 2‑step sync

State vectors and sync.

5 min read2025

Deep Dive

ProseMirror internals

Efficient tree lookups.

5 min read2025

Reflection

#RealtimeSync notes

CRDT learning logs.

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More writings coming soon